TitanReach aims to become a new old-school MMORPG for PC, developed by the indie studio Square Root. The title launched its Kickstarter campaign today for 500,000 Australian dollars (363,172 euros) and raised over 50,000 dollars in the first 16 hours.
What kind of game is this? TitanReach aims to become a modern MMORPG that connects to the “old times” and has been in development for about a year. The game does away with classes and instead focuses on 3 playstyles: melee, ranged, and magic.
In line with this, there are various attributes that you can improve, such as vitality, defense, strength, or focus. How you play your character will be determined by the attributes and the equipment.
In addition to combat attributes, you can also improve various other skills, including mining, fishing, and blacksmithing.
Additionally, the MMORPG promises:
- An action-packed combat system with dodging and blocking
- Diverse quests that are not constantly repetitive, but will take you to different locations in the world, for solving puzzles or fighting in dungeons
- PvE in dungeons, raids, and boss battles in the open world
- Open PvP in certain high-risk areas. There, you can even lose your equipment. However, there should also be PvP content that doesn’t carry punishments.
- Many skills, from which you can only carry 5 at the same time (2 weapon skills on the mouse buttons, 2 general skills, and a utility skill)
- A player-controlled economy
- An exciting lore revolving around the Titans scattered throughout the game world
The game impresses with vision and a first playable version
What makes the MMORPG so interesting? Just today, on September 16th, TitanReach launched the campaign on Kickstarter, which is set to last a month, until October 16th. And already within 16 hours, they raised over 50,000 dollars, thus achieving 1/10 of their campaign goal.
This is mainly due to 3 things:
- The MMORPG aims to promote social aspects by including minigames in taverns, guild content, and cooperative boss events. Guild quests and guild halls are also mentioned as possible content. Furthermore, they focus on being a “real MMO with many players” again.
- The developers have a clear opinion on the monetization of the game: No content that gives an advantage over others, not even a bonus on XP. At release, there will only be one way to spend money: via the mandatory subscription (7.99 dollars per month).
- TitanReach is already playable for free in a demo version.
So if you are considering supporting the MMORPG, you can get a download link via the Discord server and then get started right away. We at MeinMMO have done exactly that.
What can you currently do in the game? The game is about 3.5 GB in size and currently offers only a rough base of the game, but various servers, including locations in Europe with very low ping (around 50). In the first few minutes, we already encountered some players.
You can explore a very simplistic world in TitanReach, fight creatures, complete quests, and try out professions like fishing or cooking. The video at the beginning of the post also shows what these contents look like.
However, the developers emphasize on Kickstarter that the animations, combat system, and many other contents are still in a very early stage.
When the game will begin official alpha and beta tests has not yet been revealed. The release is currently set for Q4 2022.
TitanReach is not the only new MMORPG on Kickstarter. Just recently, Ilysia launched a campaign. Ilysia focuses on VR and shows how MMORPGs could look like in the future.
